Re: Suppressing native compilation (short and long term)

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 12:52:59 +0000
>> 
>> This is what `native-comp-deferred-compilation' does.  Well except for
>> trampolines but this is extremly light as cpu/energy cost.
>
> I think if we want to allow people to turn off async compilation, we
> should provide a way to force native-comp-available-p to return nil.
> When that function returns nil, Emacs already does react correctly (or
> at least it's supposed to).

Yes `native-comp-deferred-compilation' AFAIK does exactly this already,
`native-comp-available-p' is to check if the native compiler is
available (not necessarily the deferred/async mechanism).

Best Regards

  Andera